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PROPHETS FAILED TO JVIXiE. Wilson's Reelection Triumph for Populace. Micah is set down among the minor prophets: but if he were "in our midst" now and were interested in the politics of the day he would doubtless say with authority to "the prophets that make the people err," "Night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets and the day shall be dark over them." He would almost certainly say something like this to the Prophet of Peacham who nas oeen reckoned the most exact of the profession. It was by this self same authority that the States of the American union were divided into five specific classes: 1. Sure Hughes States. 2. Sure Wilson States. 3. Unexpected Hughes States. 4. Believed Hughes States. 5. Doubtful States. The fulfillment of these predic tions may be summed up briefly as follows: / 1. Guessed right as to 13 sure Wilson States. 2. Guessed wrong as to nine sure Hughes States, 50 votes. 3. Guessed right as to two expected Hughes States, 2S votes. 4. Guessed wrong as to two believed Hughes States, 32 votes. 5. Guessed right as to seven doubtC!f ofao JLUl uiai^c. Gave Hughes 332 electoral votes; gave Wilson 149 electoral votes, and set down 50 electoral votes as doubtful. Missed fire on Hughes by 77 votes and missed fire on Wilson by 127 votes. Others Also Slipped. Of course, the Prophet of Peacham was not the only prophet who failed to see what would happen?he came nearer hitting the mark really than Vance McCormick, the chief prognosticator of the triumphant Democracy, and all the lesser prophets who variously interpreted the shifting currents of American sentiment from day to day as the grand struggle moved on to its most surprising finish. Nothing like it ever happened before; probably nothing like it will ever happen again, and a great majority of American voters think in their hearts that it happened exactly right. The prophets are dead and the soothsayers are no more. They may come back?probably will as the warning reads?not precisely V>io nnnnoMtnn hut it Trill dft for 1U blllO wu V IV " *?* V* V/ ? V* the purpose of illustrating the perils to which the people are ever exposed ?there "shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies." But for the present at least they are out of the way and there is enough in the election returns to make the people rejoice with Daniel, going back, to the real prophets, who beheld "a hegoat coming from the West, on the face of the whole earth; and touching not the ground." What does it all mean? Well, it means a good many things, and among them these perfectly clear things: A Majority A * .sident, 1. It can never be said again that Woodrow Wilson is a minority president, as he received the largest popular vote ever cast for a president of the United States; over 400,000 more votes than were cast for his Republican opponent; 2,267,000 more votes than he received four years ago, and nearly a million more A. ^ J vuues man \\ ere cast ior a presiaential candidate in any previous election. 2. It can never be said again that Woodrow Wilson is a sectional presi-dent. The votes cast for him in the South were 1,124,000; the votes cast for him in the North and West numbered 7,334,000 or nearly six times the entire vote polled for him in the South. Less than 50,000 votes would have given him the whole of New England. With the East and the West and the South working together, the war of the sections is over. 3. It can never be said again that the president must be a partisan to be effective in the administration of ' his office. Tens of thousands of voters, without regard to party or race or residence or sex or calling flocked to Woodrow Wilson's standard to the number, in fact, of over 2,250,000, not because he is the titular and accepted leader of the Democratic party, but in spite of that fact, and becaii.ep thpv riahtlv annraiepri hie wnrt and believed in his good faith. 4. It can never be said again that the "trained political manager," the master of ward meetings and partisan assemblies is necessary to the successful conduct of an election of the true issues of which the people are advised; that party organizations, however thoroughly equipped with men and resources, and however sinister in purpose and direction can stand against the spirit of revolution ?revolution against established evil, against criminal autocracy, against usurped power. As Wendell Phil lips said 64 years ago: "Revolutions are not made?they come." It begins to look now as if it were hardly necessary for any campaign to have been made for Wilson. so overwhelming has been his approval by the people of the country. "The record is the reason." as Walter Pickett, the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina, expressed it in his speeches on the stump. His Own Platform. Cf course, the workers in the field are entitled to their fair share of credit for the grand result; but Woodrow Wilson was his own man-| ager and his own platform. He was stronger than his party by approximately 3,000,000 votes. He stood upon his record of actual achievement, and that was enough. When he was reviled he reviled not again; I even had he been capable of this 1 * 3 - ' ?- ? -^ 4-1* VMIKI i/? noarf I metnoa or reacuing i.-ic yuui.?. it was not necessary. When occasion required he handled the rapier with kid gloves rather thaii the meat ax with which his vociferous antagonists tried to hew their wav to the places of public plunder. He did not lose his head when all about him were losing theirs. Having nothing to excuse in his administration, he was not driven to apology in pleading for the public favor. He made no promises in exchange for political support. He defied the enemies who sought his embarrassment by sinister demands. He kept straight forward in the middle of the road that leads to government of the people, by the people, for the people. And in this sign he won the greatest triumph ever won in Americqui politics and this without raising his voice, or stamping his feet or shaking his fist. It came about naturally just as the harvest follows seed time or uayngm the dawn. Mr. Wilson's reelection means quite a number of noteworthy things. The old party machinery has been thoroughly discredited if not destroyed as a necessary agency in the determination of political issues. The court has been taken oat 01 politics. The supremacy of mind over matter. The dollar has lost its, purchasing power at the polling places. There were at least three reasons why Mr. Hughes could not be elected president: 1. Hughes. 2. Col. Roosevelt. 3. Mr. Wilson. Some Other Agents. Among the minor but effective agents of his undoing were Willcox and Senator Cabot Lodge, the first of whom had absolutely no practical sense, besides being unacceptable to I fild lino Dnnnhli^on loaHorc from the beginning, and the last unworthy of belief., From being a great judge of the highest court in the land, Mr. Hughes speedily became the veriest petifogger ever known in American politics. His letter of resignation to the president as a justice of the supreme court was in execrable form, his telegram to the convention at Chicago saying that he had heard "the call of duty" was described by one of his supporters as "admirable" and his speech of acceptance was second worse in form and substance only to the keynote speech of Senator Harding, his initial work on the hustings was the sorriest ever known and in his later and better work he did not strike a really high or true note. He had no case. Disturbed by fears within and foes without, with absolutely no well defined policy in his own mind as to what he would do should he be elected to the presidency, doubting the friendship of the Progressives and fearful of the support of the Old Guard, he dragged his weary length along over 30,000 miles of territory to certain defeat. He could not shake off Col. Roosevelt who had betraved the Proerres sive convention at Chicago; he would not shake hands with Hiram Johnson when he was in California so desirous was he of plocating the old line Republicans and he failed to appreciate John M. Parker, the Progressive candidate for vice president, who cast in his lot with Wilson, and his dream of power and duty ended in his undoing. It is a sad case of an ambitious man answering a call that must have been intended for somebody else. Country Behind Him. Mr. Wilson will doubtless eo alone as if nothing had happened. He knows now that the country is behind him, that party and sectional lines were broken for him, that he stands now not as the leader alone of a political party but as the leader of the American people. This is a great mission for a great man. . But what about the far off divine event of the succession four years from now? Hughes will not run again; Roosevelt is impossible; Root will be too old then: Lodge could not carry his own State in a presidential election, and Taft is teaching law at Yale. There is no one among the Republicans in sight but Hiram Johnson and (Continued on page 7, column 2.) NOTICE. All persons are forbidden hunting, trapping, or tresspassing on our land. P. M. KEARSE, J. O. KEARSE, L. W. RITTER, Nov. 2 7.?3t. NOTICE. Pursuant to an order of the Pro- a bate Court for Bamberg county, no- | tice is given that on December 8th, 1916, at eleven in the forenoon, in front of the residence of Mrs. E. A. Smoak, on Carlisle street, Bamberg, S. C., I will sell at public sale for cash to the highest bidder the movable personal property of the estate of Geo. P. Harmon, deceased, said property consisting of furniture, stoves, household goods, and other personal property. J. B. HARMON, | A J C 1 + AT? j ^.UiiuiiiSLi aiui. Nov. 22, 1916.?2t. NOTICE OF SALE. Pursuant to an order of the Probate Court for Bamberg county, I, J. C. Kinard, as administrator of the estate of C. E. Kinsey, deceased, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, at the store building at Ehrhardt, S. C., formerly occupied by the said C. E. Kinsey, on the 13th day of December, 1916, beginning at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and continuing until sold, the following property, to wit: All fixtures, goods, wares and merchandise, property of said estate, and located within said buildings, an inventory of the same being on file in the office of Probate Judge for Bamhortr prmntv J f!. KINARD. Administrator of the Estate of C. E. Kinsey. Nov. 28. 1916.?2t. NOTICE OF SALE. Pursuant to an order of the Probate Judge for Bamberg county, I, Mrs. Josie Bessinger, as administratrix of the estate of C. W. Bessinger, deceased, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, at the late residence of the said C. \V. Bessinger, at Govan, S. C., on the 14th day of December 1916, beginning at ten o'clock in the forenoon and continuing until sold, the, following property, to wit: Personal property, consisting of live stock, farming implements, machinery, provisions, and household goods and furniture, property of the said estate, and located at the late residence of the said C. W. Bessinger, an inventory of the same being on file in the office of Probate Judge for Bamberg county. MRS. JOSIE BESSINGER, Administratrix of the Estate of C. W. Bessinger. November 28, 1916.?2t. TAX NOTICE. I The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1916, until the 15th day of March, 1917, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1917, until the 31st day of January, , 1917, a penalty of one per cent, will . be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1917, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1917, until the 15th day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 6 1-2 mills For county purposes 7 mills Constitutional school tax 3 mills Total 14 1-2 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills flrviro? Vn 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1916, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not| made returns to the Auditor are re- ! quested to do so on or before the ! 1st of January, 1917. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1916, until the 1st dav of March, 1917. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg: County. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on January 3rd, 1917, the undersigned will apply to the Probate Judge of Bamberg county, S. C., for letters dis- j missory as administratrix of the es-. tate of J. A. Hunter, deceased. MRS. J. A. HUNTER, Administratrix. Nov. 29, 1916. CITATION TO CREDITORS. State of South Carolina, Bamberg County?Court of Probate. In re estate of George P. Harmon, deceased. To the Creditors of the estate of Geo. P. Harmon, deceased: You are hereby summoned and required to present to the undersigned your claims against the said estate, duly attested, as required by law; and all persons indebted to said estate will please make payment to the undersigned. J. B. HARMON, Administrator. Address: McCormick, S. C. Nov. 14, 1916. ! Just R( I have on hanc Finest 1 and that has been si a number of y PRICE IS nnn nn nrrnnr if 11/Ilir 5tt Mt BMUKJi MAMDU G. FRANK! BAMBER HBHHnflHHDBHBHHHBHH ) ^ ^ Delivered $850.00. Clover Leaf Four ! HERE IS THE BEST a _ ~ Powerful tmrty-nve norse pc One Hundred and Fourteen i One Man, Mohair Top. Fully equipped with standari Lighting System. Weight 2,200 pounds. Handsome, Comfortable, Dui Price $850.00 delivered at yc Demonstration on request. I A 1V/ICC r JrtiVlLiJ L. i Sole Agent for Barnwell and Bamberg Roomy Five Passes iceived < 1 a lot of the Horses i Y Aules flipped here in rears, and the / : Dir.HT / #' YOUR NEXT PURCHASE 5AMBERG G. S. 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